Day one of the Republican National Convention is complete. I guess the big news, outside of the standard bigotry and hate displayed and celebrated by delegates in the local newspaper, is that Trump's wife plagiarized Michelle Obama and Rick Astley:
T.W. Shannon: In 2014, Buzzfeed of all places revealed that TW Shannon, the once rising star of the Oklahoma GOP, plagiarized snippets from Tom Coburn and Jim Inhofe's websites. This really didn't bother me all that much. Oklahoma politicians waste way too much time trying to chew up, swallow and regurgitate the words of those wackos. They should just save us all some time and copy and paste them.
Elizabeth Warren: Apparently she pulled a Pioneer Woman and plagiarized some recipes, therefore, she should probably get her own cooking show and line of pots and pans.
George O. Carney: This guy was a geography professor at OSU. I guess he was caught plagiarizing stuff in published papers. Yawn. Who cares.
Okay, I actually made those back in 2011. Does that mean I'm plagiarizing my own work?
Anyway, back to that NewsOK.com article I referenced. They only mentioned four Oklahomans who were accused of plagiarism. For some reason they left out these two perps:
Mary Fallin
As I mentioned in our 10 Odd Things To Know About Mary Fallin post, Mary Fallin plagiarized excerpts from a KOSU report about the last remaining survivor from the USS Oklahoma. It was such a big deal that Gan Matthews even investigated it.
Anyway, I'm not sure why NewsOK.com left out these winners from their list of notable plagiarist. I doubt their political affiliation had anything to do with it, because you know, the Oklahoman is fair and balanced and trusted and all that good stuff, but I'm glad it happened because it gave me something to write about today. Thanks, NewsOK!